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The month in arts: Mofo Sideshow, Sugar Mountain and Flickerfesthttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/dec/22/month-in-arts-mofo-sideshow-sugar-mountain-flickerfest
<p>Get through the festive season with Anne Ferran’s Shadow Land, Australia’s largest short film festival and the cellists who made it big on YouTube<strong></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.stillsgallery.com.au/artists/ferran/index.php?obj_id=bio">Anne Ferran</a>’s photographs capture more than just their subjects – they capture the stories and histories that haunt them. With an interest in Australia and New Zealand’s colonial histories, Ferran investigates gaps in the past and aims to shed light on lost storylines, particularly those of anonymous women and children. <a href="https://www.acp.org.au/index.php/exhibitions/88-exhibitions/exc-2/121-exhibitions-shadowland-detail">This exhibition</a> includes photography, textiles, video and text works from her extensive 30-year career, from the 1980s to 2014.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/dec/22/month-in-arts-mofo-sideshow-sugar-mountain-flickerfest">Continue reading...</a>CultureShort filmsFilmPhotographyInstallationArtFestivalsClassical musicMusicMon, 22 Dec 2014 03:30:41 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2014/dec/22/month-in-arts-mofo-sideshow-sugar-mountain-flickerfestPhotograph: Anne Ferran and the Wesfarmers Collection/SuppliedPhotograph: Anne Ferran and the Wesfarmers Collection/SuppliedGuardian Staff2014-12-22T03:30:41ZThe joy of short films: SBS's Tropfest treatshttps://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2013/sep/10/tropfest-film-festival-best-of-summer
SBS's countdown to Tropfest highlights the best of short film ahead of the summer festival. Which are your favourites?<p>For Australian film fans, Tropfest is a summer essential that has long been celebrated with a picnic in Sydney's Domain – or other outdoor venues broadcasting around the country – while keeping a wary eye on summer storm clouds. So those with both sunbaked and sodden memories of battling the crowds and the elements to champion short films will surely join me in welcoming the launch of Tropfest TV. Launched on Sunday night, the next 12 weeks, SBS2 has the next 12 weeks sorted with weekly thematically linked selections of Tropfest shorts from home and away, including New Zealand, USA and the Middle East.</p><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/38602108">Transmission (excerpt)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user10729051">Bonnie Elliott</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2013/sep/10/tropfest-film-festival-best-of-summer">Continue reading...</a>Short filmsFilmTue, 10 Sep 2013 09:26:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/culture/australia-culture-blog/2013/sep/10/tropfest-film-festival-best-of-summerPhotograph: Janie Barrett/AAPTropfest is the world's largest short film festival. Photograph: Janie Barrett/AAPPhotograph: Janie Barrett/AAPTropfest is the world's largest short film festival. Photograph: Janie Barrett/AAPAlice Tynan2013-09-10T09:26:00ZMelbourne international film festival 2013: 10 things to see and dohttps://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2013/jul/24/10-things-melbourne-film-festival
From Tim Winton's The Turning to Twenty Feet From Stardom – our pick of the Melbourne international film festival<p>Film festivals prompt us to contemplate big questions. Life. Love. The symbolic power of motifs such as peeled potatoes and broken umbrellas. And, most of all,&nbsp;why anybody would want to join lines of hipsters that snake halfway to Europe in order to sit in smelly cinemas and tolerate the <a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/films/blog-articles/124672/MIFF-Glitches-fall-short-of-a-win-win-situation/">inevitable onslaught of technical glitches</a>. But nothing holds back Melbourne's cinephiles, who are once again preparing to gorge on a smorgasbord of features and shorts from around the world, before emerging two weeks later, nursing sore backs and hissing at the sunlight.</p><p>This year's programme is packed with treats – here are some of my picks for things to see and do as the festival kicks off off this Thursday. (It runs through until August 11.)</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2013/jul/24/10-things-melbourne-film-festival">Continue reading...</a>Melbourne international film festivalFilmCultureShort filmsWed, 24 Jul 2013 02:23:00 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2013/jul/24/10-things-melbourne-film-festivalPhotograph: /MIFFMIFF 2013: Valentine Road, the Turning, Patrick and Deep Red Photograph: MIFFPhotograph: /MIFFMIFF 2013: Valentine Road, the Turning, Patrick and Deep Red Photograph: MIFFLuke Buckmaster2013-07-24T02:23:00Z